Announcing PyBay2018’s Speakers!

PyBay2018 is only months away! We’re so excited to announce the list of speakers who will be presenting the main talks on August 17–19, 2018 in San Francisco, California.

First of all, thank you to everyone who’s taken the time to respond to our call for proposals.

Our goal was to curate a program that:

Includes the latest developments and use of Python in various fields

Is diverse and inclusive of everyone who’s passionate about Python and doing good things with it!

With a record number of amazing proposals and a limited number of slots this year, we had such a challenging time deciding talks. We’re pretty proud of what we’ve accomplished though, with a line-up of:

Seasoned speakers who’ve written popular Python libraries, CTOs of startups, developer evangelists from larger companies, a first timer who’s recently graduated from bootcamp, and everything in between

Perspectives from people living in the SF Bay Area, Los Angeles, WA, MA, OH, NE, TX, and 3 other continents

25% of speakers are women

Excellent coverage on Python fundamentals and libraries, ML/AI/DS, DevOps/infrastructure. Some talks on performance, hardware, iOT and the people side of engineering too!

Here’s the final talk list, ordered by the speaker’s first name.

Deprecating the state machine: building conversational AI with the Rasa stack — Alan Nichol

Robots, biology and unsupervised model selection — Amelia Taylor

Detecting business chains at scale with PySpark and machine learning — Andrew Danks

Automated responses to questions about your health — Austin Powell

Reproducible performance — profiling all the code, all the time, for free — Bartosz Wróblewski